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PowerPoint Power BI Add-In in a PowerPoint Online Document
Hi Collinq,
Thanks for your reply. The scenario is a PointPoint presentation that we've created using the Power BI add-in that will be discussed in a meeting. The meeting organiser shares the documents for the meeting with the meeting participants via a link to a folder in Sharepoint online where the documents are stored.
If the PowerPoint document sharing settings are set to 'Can view', the Power BI add-in doesn't work. Nothing is downloaded from the Power BI service. If the PowerPoint document sharing settings are set to 'Can edit', the Power BI add-in does work, but any interaction with the visuals e.g. filtering, button clicking etc, are visible to everyone else who is accessing the presentation in the meeting. This makes it virtually unusable.
A possible workaround might be to share the presentation as a document attachment rather than as a link to a shared version, but everyone being sent their own desktop copy isn't ideal.
HI AnalystPete ,
According to this article: View and present live Power BI data in PowerPoint - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
you can provide a "Snapshot" where users have to have Power BI access or "Public Snapshot" where they just have to have the deck.
That article also mentions how to affect the slide show settings about refreshing.
Does that help with your situation?